8.04 upgrade and grub problem

[hurtman]

I upgraded a server from 7.10 to 8.04. After the upgrade, the computer rebooted and came up with a grub prompt. I can see the kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-server) but I can't load it. I keep getting error 18 (cylinder size exceeds maximum supported by bios). I had no problems with 7.10. Any help?

Thanks,
Jeff

[dstew]

Did you re-do your partitions when you installed 8.04?

[hurtman]

No, I did not redo the partitions.

[Pumalite]

Can you upgrade your BIOS?

[hurtman]

Can't upgrade the BIOS. It's an Intel SE440BX-3 and I can't find any upgrades.

[Pumalite]

How much memory do you have?

[hurtman]

only 256MB

[Pumalite]

You could do a clean install with the Xubuntu 8.04 Alternate CD. 8.4 optimaly needs 340.

[confused57]

I upgraded a server from 7.10 to 8.04. After the upgrade, the computer rebooted and came up with a grub prompt. I can see the kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-server) but I can't load it. I keep getting error 18 (cylinder size exceeds maximum supported by bios). I had no problems with 7.10. Any help?

Thanks,
Jeff
This may explain what happened & how to repair:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#18
See the error 18 someone received when upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10...new kernel(7.10) was placed outside the bios limit.

[hurtman]

Thanks to all for your help and advice. I ended up installing an old hard drive, partitioning it at 512 MB for the boot partition. The original drive became my data drive. I copied the smb.conf file and changed the mapping to match the new mount. Worked great. Server is back up and running.